April Mason shares how working with a functional medicine doctor helped her lose 34 pounds after turning 50, dropping from 186 to 152 lb by addressing hormone imbalances. She urges women over 40 to get estrogen, testosterone, progesterone, magnesium, and vitamin D tested, and is hosting a free webinar in early December about hormone health.
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So I'm getting ready to go have lunch with a friend, and I threw on some jeans. People who know me well, they know you seldomly will ever catch me in jeans. I'm more of a dress and a skirt kind of girl, vintage at that. But I threw on some jeans on this beautiful fall day, and y'all look. You see that? Do you see that? I can put my whole hand all up in through here. So on my 50th birthday last year, I was 186 pounds, and I was totally miserable. 'Cause dealing with perimenopause, inflammation, cortisol, all of the things, all of the things. Fatigue was bad. I couldn't even get out of bed. So of course, I, I'm gonna— I promise you guys, I'm gonna tell you about my functional medicine doctor. We actually are doing a free webinar at the top of December. But I got with her and we got me on the right things. But I wanted to say, ladies, go get your hormones checked because at this stage in our lives, things change. It's just what it is. And you could be feeling bad and down. And undesirable when you just need a little tweak, a little estrogen here, a little testosterone there, a little progesterone there, a little magnesium to go to sleep, you know, those little things, little vitamin D. But you gotta go get checked. So I wanted to show y'all that I'm proud of myself. I'm proud of myself. Now, I've always had a smaller waist. I'm shaped like my mama in that regard. She has a smaller waist, but it's always this part right here. Y'all, y'all know this right here that I'm trying to get rid of. I know how to disguise her very well. From 186 To now 152. My goal is 145, but I gotta get rid of the visceral fat because I did have a high volume of visceral fat. And visceral fat is fat around your very important organs. So I'm working on that. I need a good workout partner. That's why I gotta move, child. I gotta go. I gotta go get around people that's motivated and don't wanna just eat pasta. 'Cause I live in an Italian town and you got pasta everywhere. It's good, but it go to your hips and your waist. So yeah.
